The Least Action Principle and the Related Concept of Generalized Flows for Incompressible Perfect Fluids

DOI10.2307/1990977zbMath0697.76030MaRDI QIDQ3475010

Yann Brenier

Publication date: 1989

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1990977

zbMATH Keywords

least action principle; shortest path problem; ``continuous linear programming problem; d- dimensional torus; Euler equations of perfect incompressible flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B99: Incompressible inviscid fluids

35D99: Generalized solutions to partial differential equations

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